You must have been on a preserve or something as I have hunted pheasant (cocks only, hens are illegal here in Nova Scotia, Canada) with a German Short Hair and they certainly were not easy to find. We hunted grain and corn fields and the dog, he was a top notch performer, found them ok but the wild birds were hard to raise once he went on point. We pretty much had to kick the bird in the air to get a shot. We always knew there were lots where we hunted and if not for the dog we would have been hard pressed to get 1. It sounds more like you were raising huns (hungarian partridge) as there are about a dozen or so of them in a cubby. I know there are preserves here which offer hunts for pheasants and it's nothing to get your limit in a day as they are raised by the owners of the preserves.
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